Report from ITU

What a week. Interviews and travels we ended up only working 3 days in our area but it was still a good week.

Travels for Trainings

So this week we got to head over to São Paulo for a Leadership Conference with Elder Aidukatis of the Seventy and then stay the night in Sorocaba for another training with our zone and two other zones with Elder Aidukatis again. I learned SO much in those two days. It was funny because he received the results of a questionaire that we filled out and he started off the training saying that he, our president and the Lord are all very happy with our work, but still not satisfied and warned that if he was being hard on us we could call out for him to "put more sugar on it." Haha it was good though, president Farnes and his wife talked about being consacrated missionaries, how every morning in our prayers we should consacrate our day to the Lord. It was very cool.

Pizza Até o Pô (Lots of Pizza)

So the night we stayed in Sorocaba we stayed there with about 14 other missionaries that also lived a long ways away from the meeting and had to stay there for travel purposes. One of the Elders had already passed in that area and mentioned an all you can eat pizza place not too far from the house. Needless to say, you should have seen the eyes on the waiters at this little pizza place when 14 hungry missionaries walked in. It was great.

Member Missionary

There was a talent show Saturday in our ward that was pretty cool. The highlight was that one of the members was at a hot dog place right before and invited a random guy to come and join the party and he CAME! We sat with him and made friends with him and invited him to church the next day! He said he wants to come more times and talked a lot about how God's going to change his life. 

So I got to give a talk in the new ward and one of the things that I shared after talking about techniques to share the gospel is that every person on this earth was created by a divine being. That divine being gave us each individual gifts and talents. Those gifts and talents were given with a specific purpose "To bring to pass the imortality and eternal life of man." Wouldn't it be a shame if we didn't develop and share our talents and use them in the work of salvation. 

Love you guys!

Elder DP